Quotes Concerning Religion
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(8 Quotations)

• St. Basil (Archbishop of Caesarea 275 A.D.) - "Oh God, enlarge within us the sense of fellowship with all living things, our brothers the animals to whom Thou gavest the earth as their home in common with us. We remember with shame that in the past we have exercised the high dominion of man with ruthless cruelty so that the voice of the earth, which should have gone up to Thee in song, has been a groan of travail."

• Buddha - "All beings tremble before violence. All fear death, all love life. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?"

• Buddha - "May all that have life be delivered from suffering."

• Buddha - "To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana."

• St. John Chrysostom (400 A.D.) – "Surely we ought to show kindness and gentleness to animals for many reasons, and chiefly because they are of the same Source as ourselves."

• Dr. Donald Coggan (Archbishop of Canterbury) – "Animals, as part of God’s creation, have rights which must be respected. It behooves us always to be sensitive to their needs and to the reality of their pain.”

• Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Philosopher, Existentialist) – "Love the world with an all-embracing love. Love the animals; God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble them, do not harass them, do not deprive them of their happiness, do not work against God’s intent. Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to them, for they are without sin, and you with your greatness defile the earth.”

• Hippocrates (Physician, Mathematician: 400 B.C.E.) – "The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.”

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